Word: disdainful
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...vegans in Texas, Republicans in Hollywood are having a coming-out party of sorts in Zucker's new movie, An American Carol. Hollywood's first brazenly right-wing comedy, it borrows Dickens' A Christmas Carol narrative to tell the story of left-wing activist and documentarian Michael Malone, whose disdain for his country runs so deep, he's campaigning to abolish the Fourth of July. An obvious jab at lefty filmmaker Michael Moore, Malone's character is played by Kevin Farley, brother of the late comic Chris Farley. The actor shares Moore's blocky build but not his politics...
...have to protect those who do seek democracy and support those who seek protections for the people who live there. What we're seeing in the last couple of days here in New York is a President of Iran, Ahmadinejad, who would come on our soil and express such disdain for one of our closest allies and friends, Israel ... and we're hearing the evil that he speaks, and if hearing him doesn't allow Americans to commit more solidly to protecting the friends and allies that we need, especially there in the Mideast, then nothing will...
...Even if it is tempting to look with disdain or bemusement upon these fanatical customs, the good anthropologist must remember that every cultural scene is the product out of a legitimate system of meaning. For the bleary-eyed people who come out here every morning, there is a sort of mysticism in their extracurricular plans, and a deeply—held belief in the efficacy of their eight-and-a-half-by-eleven” icons. And so, when I left the Yard that morning, head full of field notes, I had already began to miss these people and their...
...core of all problems better than anyone else because he understands the magic of the market and the equations economists use to describe it,” said Orfield, a renowned expert on civil rights and education who left Harvard in 2006. “Arrogance combined with disdain for other knowledge and experience do not work well.” Still, other scholars—particularly those with a more economic bent—came to Fryer’s defense yesterday. Former University President Lawrence H. Summers called EdLabs “one of the most important initiatives...
...message from this fresh batch of political onanism, in which Obama begs Bartlet for advice? “GET ANGRIER!”Reformed Reagan-era conservative Arianna Huffington takes Bartlet’s advice to heart in “Right is Wrong.” In her disdain for namby-pamby liberalism, Huffington almost dismisses Democrats’ recapture of the House and Senate in ’06 as happenstance, chanced upon because “the positions they campaigned on are in line with mainstream America.” Instead of counting their blessings for what...